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Memorability, innovation, and joie de vivre are important to TNPR. We agree with Frost about delight and wisdom. We believe in the value of rich sound.   We believe in the beautiful—even if that beauty is not in the situation of the poem but simply the sounds of the poem, the images, or (and, ideally,) the way the poem sticks in the reader's mind long after it's been read. Readers of The National Poetry Review will always find something to enchant them, to make them glad that they are reading contemporary poetry.

Furthermore, we make it easy and affordable.
Easy: Even though it is a meticulously designed, very attractive, perfect bound magazine, The National Poetry Review is lightweight and compact — a breeze to take with you anywhere you need to go.
Affordable: A TNPR subscription is only $12 per year — less than the cost of one lunch out (if not in)!

Last but definitely not least, we seek to increase exposure and respect for our poets. Not only is The National Poetry Review distributed nationally by Ingram Periodicals, the most respected and long-standing distributor of literary magazines as well as books, but we nominate to the Pushcart Prize every year (Ted Kooser's poem from TNPR won a 2005 Pushcart Prize!), pay our poets and writers for their work whenever possible, offer The Annie Finch Prize for Poetry and the Laureate Prize for Poetry, and provide copies of the magazine to key indexers, reviewers, editors, critics, and literary promotion organizations.

The American Humanities Index and the Index of American Periodical Verse index every issue of The National Poetry Review.

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